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1. July 31, 2012 05:02 PM

   Daily News front page splash ‘flat wrong,’ says NBC

   Reports that Today Show anchor Hoda Kotb was being flown into London to boost ratings are false, the network claims

   By Hazel Sheffield

   The New York Daily News was quick to splash Tuesday’s front page with news that NBC’s Hoda Kotb was being flown in to rescue the Today Show’s Olympics coverage from Savannah Guthrie. The paper used two sources at NBC to confirm that Kotb had been flown to London to “rescue” the team because their pre-Olympics broadcast had fallen behind ABC...

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2. July 17, 2012 11:05 AM

   Stories I’d like to see

   Soaring college costs and the Penn State private plane

   By Steven Brill

   In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have received insufficient media attention. This article was originally published on Reuters.com. 1. How high are universities flying? I was amazed to see this sentence in the piece The New York Times’s ever-amazing Jo Becker wrote last week about all...

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